Monday, March 1, 2010

So my better half wanted to watch Legion. Despite my disdain for anthromorphic angels (especially ones that are outfitted like action figures), the geeky discussion regarding "How could you fight an Angel?" afterward inspired me. (p.s. My answer is that you can't fight an Angel as they're temporary manifestations of an omnipotent god's will in our material realm, i.e. it's fingertips)

I've been rereading Gene Wolfe's "Book of the New Sun," I'm always down with some ancient astronaut wackiness (ever read the Von Danniken book where he claims that the ancient astronauts are angels?) and my favorite Hellboy moment is the sublime WTF?!?! when they cut to the aliens?/angels? monitoring the monoliths imprisoning the beast.

So I now know what my next dungeon will be: The Crypt of Hierodule, the Tomb of the Elohim, a grave-dungeon containing the remains of an ancient otherworldly servant of Law/The Lords of Light. Maybe it's an alien explorer, maybe it's a six-winged serpentine Seraphim composed to radiant smokeless fire, maybe it's both and something else as well...

One/Some of the inhabitants could have access to high tech weapons - maybe not stuff that would cause collateral damage to the dungeon itself but weapons that radiate concussive waves, displace their targets or cause victims to implode, or stun/paralyse them - so they can be tried by an extreme-lawful court etc.

Ever read anything by Zecharia Sitchin? That guy knows how to tell a story. I think i remember something about Abraham having used alien technology (Ark of the Covenant) to repel a large group of attacking soldiers and the Great Pyramid being actually a prison for the "god" Marduk. Pretty awesome. Of course those stories came from ancient sources but he gave them context. He also cites Von Danniken, I believe